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NSW Relay Championships - 18th & 19th November, Homebush

For those athletes coached by a club coach (Sean Williams, Mick Little, Ken Green, Anne Saville) let them know of your availability to compete. They will then contact the relevant team managers. For those who are coached by other coaches (or who are uncoached), please notify the relevant team manager of your availability to compete. Please tell us about some of your recent running achievements. It would also save the team managers time if those who are not available to compete could let them know so that they don't have to follow up with further emails, phone calls etc.

The team managers are:

Junior Events (U14)	Junior Events (U16 - U20), Open	Veterans Events
Jacquie Rea jaykayrea@hotmail.com	Sean Williams sean@sweatsydney.com.au (m) 0412 206 821 (h) 9699 9783	Alija Kajan alija.kajan@csiro.au (m) 0403 956 477 (h) 9662 7571

 

 

 

Competition will be held at Sydney Olympic Athletic Centre at Homebush, timetable is available here.
Randwick Botany Harriers will gather at grandstand (bay 10). It is compulsory to wear club uniform.
Uniform can be purchased from Mr. Ivan Currota (tel. 93111821).

Preliminary teams are as follows:

U14 men - 4x800m		U16 Woman - 4x100m
1. Zach Rea 2. Nathan Derriman 3. James King 4. Morgan McDonald		1. Kathleen Franklin 2. Latisha Tuoma 3. Rachael Hardy 4. Dara Hayes
U14 men - 4x1500m, 3rd - 19:57.27		U16 Woman - 4x400m
1. Zach Rea 2. Nathan Derriman 3. Morgan McDonald/James King 4. Josh Davies		1. Kathleen Franklin 2. Latisha Tuoma 3. Rachael Hardy 4. Dara Hayes
U16 men - 4x800m		U16 women - 4x800m
No team		1. Elli Gillard 2. Lucy Stewart 3. Kristy Colman 4. Annabelle Green
U16 men - 4x1500m		U16 women - 4x1500m, 6th - 21:23.57
No team		1. Kristy Colman 2. Madeline Lamond 3. Rachael Howard 4. Annabelle Green
U18 men - 4x100m, 3rd - 43.13		U18 woman- High Jump
1. Brent Taylor 2. Patrik Fakiye 3. Joshua Green 4. Gregory Jeloudev/Ryan Mason		1. Kathleen Franklin 2. Latisha Tuoma 3. Rachael Hardy 4. Dara Hayes
U18 men - 4x200m		U18 woman- 4x200m
1. Brent Taylor 2. Patrik Fakiye 3. Joshua Green 4. Gregory Jeloudev/Ryan Mason		1. Hannah Pembroke 2. Georgina Pembroke 3. Jade Gomez 4. Ellie Gillard
U18 men - 4x400m, 6th - 3:34.23		U18 woman- Long Jump , 11th - 17.41m
1. Brent Taylor 2. Patrik Fakiye 3. Joshua Green 4. Gregory Jeloudev/Ryan Mason		1. Kathleen Franklin 2. Latisha Tuoma 3. Rachael Hardy 4. Dara Hayes
U18 men - 4x800m		U18 women - 4x800m, 3rd - 9:56.70
1. Anthony Ognjenovski 2. Tom Hurley 3. Adam Miller 4. Josh Johnson reserve - Darren Shein		1. Kristy Colman 2. Lauren McKillop 3. Elli Gillard 4. Lucy Stewart
U18 men - 4x1500m, 3rd - 17:36.73		U18 women - 4x1500m
1. Anthony Ognjenovski 2. Tom Hurley 3. Michael Hazan 4. Josh Johnson reserve - Darren Shein		1. Maddy Lemond 2. Rachel Howard 3. Tessa Herbert-Smith 4. Gabi Levi
U20 men - 4x800m, 4th - 8:35.48		U20 women - 4x100m, 7th - 53.85
1. James Hurley 2. Vlad Kravchenko 3. Adam Laughlan-Baulby 4. Angus Campbell		1. Caroline Pembroke 2. Georgina Pembroke 3. Hannah Pembroke 4. Britany Pembroke
U20 men - 4x1500m		U20 women - 4x1500m, 4th - 23:42.98
1. James Hurley 2. Edward Ovadia 3. Adam Laughlan-Baulby 4. Angus Campbell		1. Elli Gillard 2. Gabi Levy 3. Tessa Herbert-Smith 4. Lucy Stewart
Open men - 4x800m		Open women - 4x800m, 1st - 8:58.31
1. Jeremy Roff 2. Bradley Woods 3. Jeff Farrelly 4. Arron Jones		1. Lara Nicod 2. Selma Kajan 3. Alexis McKillop 4. Claire Doyle
Open men - 4x1500m		Open women - 4x1500m
A team, 1st - 15:29.92 1. Jeremy Roff 2. Bradley Woods 3. Jeff Farrelly 4. Arron Jones		A team 1. Amy Neville 2. Selma Kajan 3. Alexis McKillop 4. Claire Doyle
B team, 4th - 17:01.99 1. Tim McGrath 2. Andrew Knox 3. Vlad Kravchenko 4. Sean Ryan		B team 1. Lara Tamsett 2. Rebecca Lowe 3. Gretta Truscott 4. Lauren McKillop
C team, 8th - 18:20.19 1. James Dawes 2. Marco Blanco 3. Dimitri Kontopos 4. Darren Shein
Open men - Medley (800, 400, 200, 200)		Open woman - Medley, 7th - 4:34.68
1. Tim McGrath 2. ? 3. Dean Taylor 4. ?		1. ? 2. Rebecca Irwin 3. Viola Diloi 4. Jefifer Jansson/Anna White
160+ men - 4x800m		Open women - 4x100m
No team		1. Rebecca Irwin 2. Viola Diloi 3. Julie Foster 4. Jefifer Jansson
160+ men - 4x1500m		Open women - 4x200m
No team		1. Rebecca Irwin 2. Viola Diloi 3. Julie Foster 4. Jefifer Jansson/Anna White
		Open women - 4x400m
		1. Lara Nicod 2. Rebecca Irwin 3. Viola Diloi 4. Anna White

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World Junior Championships, 15 - 20 August, Beijing

Randwick Botany Harriers had 2 representatives at World Junior Championships in Beijing.
Tara Holt was selected to represent Australia in 100m hurdles while Lara Tamsett was selected for 3000m.
Both girls performed wery well in the lead-up to this competition. Tara lowered her PB down to 14.24 which is equal club record. Lara ran a PB of 9:27.0 for 3000m and also 1500m PB in 4:22.87.
Tara was first one to compete at World Juniors on August 17 running Heat1. After very good start she finished in 7th place with time of 14.50 and didn't progress to final.

In girls 3000m there were not many competitors and it organizers dicaded to have a straight final.
The race was not only very tactical but also conditions were not favourable for distance running (31 deg).
First kilometer was covered in 3:08.46, pretty slow considering that fastest girl in the race has got PB of 8:42.
Second kilometer was touch faster - 3:03. Everything unfolded in the last kilometer which winner Veronika Wanjiru covered in amazing 2:51.3.
Lara ran very well and finished 11th with new PB of 9:25.13 which is new club U20 record.

Full results of 100m hurdles and 3000m are shown below.

100m Hurdles, Heat 1 - Thursday, August 17 2006 - 9:35, Wind: 1.1 m/s
Pos	Lane	Bib	Athlete	Country	Mark			React
1	5	628	Ofili Tiffany	USA	13.68	Q		0.177
2	2	595	Plotitsyna Anna	UKR	13.73	Q		0.256
3	4	222	Galtier Manuela	FRA	14.06	Q		0.214
4	6	38	Beckles Kierre	BAR	14.07	Q		0.173
5	7	565	Rundqvist Emilia	SWE	14.11	q	(PB)	0.202
6	1	541	Ozimek Urška	SLO	14.49			0.187
7	8	20	Holt Tara	AUS	14.50			0.125
8	3	385	Asanalieva Aiganysh	KGZ	14.61		(PB)	0.182
	9	397	Tamošaityte Sonata	LTU	DQ			0.000

 

3000m W, Saturday, August 19 2006 - 18:40
Pos	Bib	Athlete	Country	Mark
1	384	Wanjiru Veronica Nyaruai	KEN	9:02.90	(SB)
2	379	Korikwiang Pauline Chemning	KEN	9:05.21
3	130	Song Liwei	CHN	9:06.35	(PB)
4	192	Gebre Belaynesh Zemedkun	ETH	9:10.92
5	502	Ivanova Viktoria	RUS	9:11.96	(PB)
6	370	Takayoshi Rie	JPN	9:13.15	(PB)
7	40	Maveau Barbara	BEL	9:13.87	(PB)
8	179	Romo Marta	ESP	9:13.98	(PB)
9	369	Sendo Sayuri	JPN	9:14.33	(PB)
10	530	Eminovic Azra	SER	9:21.35	(NJ)
11	27	Tamsett Lara	AUS	9:25.13	(PB)
12	525	Starkova Natalya	RUS	9:36.21
13	78	Jasim Kareema	BRN	9:40.14	(NJ)
14	114	Li Suyun	CHN	9:42.25	(SB)
15	26	Starrat Lucy	AUS	9:45.22
	273	Hiller Julia	GER	DNF

 

NEW Road Relays 2006, Wollongong, 5th August

Randwick Botany Harriers was very successful at NSW road relays in Wollongong on Saturday 5th August.
Both, open men and woman won this prestige event with some very fast performances. The weather wasn't kind to runners especially in the beginning of competition.
First to compete were U16 girls: Kristy Colman, Lucy Stewart, Madeline Lamond and Selma Kajan. They all run well and won their age group with only 43 seconds behind very strong U18 Sutherland team.
Next race was basically dominated by girls in blue and gold. Liz Miller posted 13:35 opener for open woman while Lauren McKillop ran very fast time of 14:07 to start off U20 girls.
Greta Truscott ran solid second leg for open women, followed by fast improving Lara Nicod. Jenny Dallaway finished very fast in 13:33 despite being sick earlier this week.
U20 girls had a probably the run of the day, Amy Neville kept the lead with her 14:30, Alexis McKillop posted impressive 14:01 and to finish it off Rebecca Lowe posted the fastest time among our girls - brilliant 13:32.
There were some late changes in male teams just before the start of the race. Jeff Farrelly swopped with Nick Cope and ran first leg for Open A team while Nick was running first leg for Open B team. Both of them ran very well, Jeff did 12:01 and Nick was little bit faster, unofficially 11:47. I guess we could afford this little experiment.
Bradley Woods was flying on his second leg - unofficially 11:25, fastest run among our boys, followed by also impressive 11:32 by Jeff Hunt and 11:30 by Jeremy Roff.
If anything these relays prove that we can get coaches running when it comes to the crunch. As we were short for couple of runners (I heard that Shane Fazl was in hospital), Ken Green offered to run the second leg in Open B team and Sean Williams ran, believe it or not, third leg in Open B team and few minutes later fourth leg in 35+ B team. You can't give better example to athletes - well done coaches. 35+ Men team end up with a bronze medal, well done Mohammed, Brenden, Peter and Jim. Unofficial results are available further down on this page while official results will be available at NSW Athletics website soon.

NSW Champions for 2006, Men Open team 4x4 km
Jeff Farrelly - 12:01	Bradley Woods - 11:25	Jeffrey Hunt - 11:32	Jeremy Roff - 11:30

NSW Champions for 2006, Women Open team 4x4 km
Liz Miller - 13:35	Greta Truscott - 14:41	Lara Nicod - 14:12	Jenny Dallaway - 13:33

The venue is Flagstaff Point in Wollongong and the relays are on Saturday, 5th August, starting at 12 o'clock with youngest categories. Course map and timetable are available here.
The relay teams consist of 4 members (they all must be registered with club) and are mainly 4x4km events, with some younger age-groups being 4x2km and 4x3km events.
They are a great opportunity to race with a team from you age group or ability level- eg there are junior age group teams, veterans age group teams, plus open graded teams (eg A teams, B teams, C teams, etc).
The club is currently in the process of taking nominations for the teams. We hope to enter as many teams as possible so that all runners interested in competing can do so.

The basic procedure to follow is:
For those coached by a club coach (Sean Williams, Mick Little, Ken Green) let them know of your availability to compete. They will then contact the relevant team managers. For those who are coached by other coaches (or who are uncoached), please notify the relevant team manager of your availability to compete. Please tell us about some of your recent running achievements. It would also save the team managers time if those who are not available to compete could let them know so that they don't have to follow up with further emails, phone calls etc.

The team managers are:

Junior Events (U12 - U20)	Open and Veterans Events
Sean Williams sean@sweatsydney.com.au (m) 0412 206 821 (h) 9699 9783	Alija Kajan alija.kajan@csiro.au (m) 0403 956 477 (h) 9662 7571

 

 

 

Senior Teams - unofficial results

Men Open 4x4 km - A team, 1st		Woman Open 4x4 km - A team, 1st
1. Jeff Farrelly 2. Bradley Woods 3. Jeffrey Hunt 4. Jeremy Roff	12:01 11:25 11:32 11:30	1. Liz Miller 2. Greta Truscott 3. Lara Nicod 4. Jenny Dallaway	13:35 14:41 14:12 13:33
Men Open 4x4 km - B team		Woman Open 4x4 km - B team
1. Nick Cope 2. Ken Green 3. Sean Williams 4. Edward Ovadia	11:47 15:10 14:05 14:44	No team.
Men 35+ 4x4 km, A team, 3rd		Woman 35+ 4x4 km
1. Mohammad Alkhub 2. Brendan Edis 3. Peter Spehr 4. Jim Dawes	14:34 14:11 14:24 12:59	No team.
Men 35+ 4x4 km, B team
1. Michael Troop 2. Darren Podesta 3. Mat Patterson 4. Sean Williams	15:50 16:58 15:14 13:58

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U/16 Boys 4x3km	U/16 GIRLS: 4x3km, 1st
No team	1. Kristy Colman 2. Lucy Stewart 3. Madeline Lemond 4. Selma Kajan	11:15 11:32 11:45 10:56
U/20 BOYS: 4x4km	U/20 GIRLS: 4x4km, 1st
No team	1. Lauren McKillop 2. Amy Neville 3. Alexis McKillop 4. Rebecca Lowe	14:07 14:30 14:01 13:32

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, July 22, 2006
The big news from Heusden (Belgum) is that Youcef Abdi smashed the 30 years old NSW 3000m SC record.
He posted 8:21.98 which is more then 4 seconds better than old record and one of the fastest Australian times in history. Not far off Shaun Creighton's Australian record - 8:16.22. This is also better then world championships A qualifier (8:24.60).


Official Result
Men - 3000 Metres Steeplechase

Pos	Country	Athlete	Time
1	KEN	MATELONG RICHARD	8:08.44
2	USA	LINCOLN DANIEL	8:11.96
3	MAR	TALEB BRAHIM	8:14.75
4	NED	VROEMEN SIMON	8:15.37
5	MAR	HACHLAF ABDELKADER	8:16.62
6	MAR	AIT BAHMAD ABDELGHANI	8:20.29
7	KEN	MISOI KIPKIRUI	8:21.50
8	AUS	ABDI YOUCEF	8:21.98
9	BEL	DESMET PIETER	8:23.05
10	NOR	KRISTENSEN BJORNAR	8:23.65
11	KEN	KIBWALEI ELIJAH	8:24.77
12	KEN	NIAMU JULIUS	8:25.41
13	QAT	SHEBTO AHMED	8:25.77
14	GBR	BOWDEN ADAM	8:28.43
15	MAR	EZZINE HAMID	8:36.01
16	KEN	KOSGEI COLLINS	8:36.71
17	GBR	STOKES STUART	8:37.23
18	AUS	NOWILL PETER	8:39.91
19	BDI	DIEUDONEE GAHUNGU	8:42.68
20	RSA	RAMOLEFI RUBEN	8:47.01
21	GRE	ANAGNOSTOU THEODOROS	8:48.99
22	BEL	WILSSENS KOEN	8:56.10
	KEN	LANGAT JOHN	DNF

IAAF Golden Gala - Roma(ITA), Youcef Abdi 13th